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Sorry, it's SEMI-modular. The 3 non-modular cords are the main moth connector, the small mobo connector, and the GPU. Yes I can just wrap up this GPU connector and buy another one. As far as what I did to wrap it up, I cut the extension cords flush with the top of the adapter, then tightly wrapped where the cords go into the head with electrical tape. I can't cap them as I didn't leave enough wire to do that. I guess to make it extra safe, I could dab a bit of non-conductive glue or epoxy on the exposed tips, then rewrap the adapter.

Selling a spare PC and it has a 750W Seasonic Gold PSU. Was going to sell it with a 3070, but when trying to plug in the single PSU cable with 2 ends into the GPU, the extension end partly came out. No way for me to put it back in, so I cut the extension ends, wrapped them up with electrical tape, and went hunting for a spare GPU cable since the PSU is modular. Apparently I don't have one. I decided on selling that 3070 and now have a 3060 I can put into the system and it only takes a single 8-pin PSU connection. Just making sure it's safe to use the damaged end. I did tape everything up so no wires will touch and the main connector is solid. I think it should be fine, but double checking here.

1080p or 1440p?

No, I already have a used EVGA FTW3 3070 and a brand new Asus Tuf 3060. Going to sell one on it's own and the other is to be included with the system I am selling.

With so many used PC's being sold without GPU's, selling one with a RTX GPU is a huge advantage and should allow me to get max money for the whole system. I was just debating which option would bring in max money, and am leaning towards the 3060 with the system and the 3070 solo. Please speak up if you think I should do anything differently.

Reminder, this is for a system I am selling. My recently upgraded system is a 5600X & 3080 Ti. I am trying to maximize my ability to sell the used system, but at the same time, maximize my profit as I still have to pay off my main system, which wasn't cheap!

I upgraded my main system recently and thus I am getting ready to sell my old system, which is a 9700K@5.0Ghz with 32MB RAM and an NVMe OS drive. I have both a used 3070(non-LHR) and a new 3060. Not going to explain how I got those, just that several things surprised me by hitting at once. Thus I will sell one on it's own and will pair the other one with my old system. My initial thought would be sell the 3070 on it's own and pair the 3060 with the system, but I am worried that a 3060 is a bit weak to pair with an OC'ed 9700K. Thoughts?

At 1080p, the CPU is used more than at 1440p, which is why I didn't mind pairing a 5600X with a 3080 Ti as I game at 1440p, usually High or greater visual settings. Thus I would presume that it's a rare occasion where my CPU would bottleneck my GPU, if ever.

Ya, that's exactly why I bought the 5600X instead of the others, little to no difference in current AAA games. However, with consoles going 8c, games will start to be coded to better utilize 8-cores in the near future, so once there becomes a bigger difference, I might upgrade at that time. Original question still holds, is my CPU bottlenecking my GPU, or might it be just this game and the way it handles hardware?

I could always upgrade to a 5800X or 5900X, but currently don't have the funds for that, maybe Black Friday time. However, I am an OC'er and that 5600X has a Dark Rock 4 Pro on it, so got plenty of cooling power for more OC.

I was looking in Afterburner at the total CPU utilization, but will keep an eye out on the per core utilization next time. With that being said, since this is a 6c12T CPU, I read that once it gets to 50%, the CPU has maxed all cores and 50-100% just shows the logical core utilization. I didn't look at the average, but seemed to be getting in the 120's most times.

I have a 5600X with PBO on and recently upgraded from a RTX 3070 to a 3080 Ti. I was playing Wildlands last night on 1440P Very High settings and noticed my GPU was bouncing in the 70-90%, averaging around 80% utilization instead of the normal all 90's. My CPU was bouncing in the 40-60% range, so say 50% average.

I am upgrading my daughter's PC from a 2c/4t Pentium to a 8700(non-K). It's an ITX system with 16GB RAM, 250G SSD, and a GTX 950 2GB GPU, and might look for a GPU upgrade when prices calm down. Current PSU is an EVGA 450W Bronze, probably the BT or BQ, not sure. My daughter barely uses this PC, maybe a couple hours a week tops, and it was built new about a year ago. I am hoping the newer CPU gives her more of an incentive to use it more. At the same time, I am upgrading my main gaming PC's PSU from a heavily used Seasonic G12 750W(SSR-750RM) to an EVGA 850W G3. This older Seasonic PSU will fit in her case, so was wondering if I should replace her current PSU with my old one? While my old Seasonic is a superior unit, it is 6 years old, bought in 2016, and has had fairly heavy use, probably on for 40-60 hours a week with an average of 6 hours a week gaming or other high current activities. While her current PSU isn't a great unit, it's still fairly new with very little use in the past year. I don't have the funds to purchase a replacement at the moment, have to wait for pricing to return to normal, so she will be using which ever PSU I choose for another 6-12 months. Which would you pick and why?

I have an RTX 3070 and a 1080p 144Hz monitor. I was wondering what would happen if I set a game to run at 1440p(supersampling), then use DLSS to take it back to 1080p. Would that help or hurt FPS and visuals?

I have 4x3TB WD Reds to be used in an external 5-bay USB enclosure that I will connect to my TrueNAS server as backup. I plan on setting it up in RaidZ1 for 12TB of backup space. To reach that amount, I need a 5th drive. While I could just spend $90+ and buy a new 3TB WD Red, I have spare 3TB WD Purple & Green drives available and was wondering if I could use either and not have to pay for another HDD. This will only ever be used as backup storage for my TrueNAS server, so 99.9% of the time will be writes only. Because the Purple drive is designed for Raid and heavy writes, I think it will fit fine. Thoughts?

I recently upgraded the RAM in my home server and now have spare 32GB(2x16GB) kit of DDR4 3000 CL16 Crucial Ballistic Sport LT RAM(model BLS2K16G4D30BESB) available to be used in another system. This other system(daughters) I would like to use it in has an 8700(non-K) on a B360 mobo, so it will max out at 2666 MHz. What I want to know is without any heavy overclocking, what type of timings could I get at 2666? At 3000, it's XMP is CL16(16-18-18). Could I get CL 13 or 14, or more likely just CL15? As for the other timings, just reduce the number by the same amount as the CL? IE CL15 would be 15-17-17 and CL14 would be 14-16-16? I presume there is no DRAM Calculator tool for Intel like there is for Ryzen?

My PSU is a Seasonic S12G 750W. It's about 5 years old, so while more than powerful enough and runs fine, I will probably replace it within a year or two.

While I prefer to just set things on Ultra and leave it, but if a game is really demanding, I'll play with the settings and get somewhere between High and Ultra, often following the Hardware Unboxed Optimization guides on various games. I agree with boggy77, as long as my average stays 90+ with my mins 60+, I am good, but it's nice to hit 144 FPS. Plus I really want a card that can hit 60+ FPS with Ray Tracing on.

I am on the market for a new GPU. My monitor is a 144Hz 1080p display and I have a 9700K@5.0Ghz CPU. I like to play the latest AAA games on max settings. A 3070 is the minimum card I am interested in as I do plan on turning on Ray Tracing as often as I can, plus on some newer AAA games, not even a 3090 can hit 144FPS, so I wouldn't consider a 3070 overkill. However, due to 1080p gaming being very CPU bound and most benchmarks don't show a vast improvement as you go beyond a 3070, would there be any benefit(worth the extra $) in getting a 6800, 6800xt, or 3080? I do plan on getting a new 1440p gaming monitor at some point, but probably not until next Xmas, so will spend most of 2021 gaming at 1080p.

Taking this info into consideration, a PROPER recommendation would be something like this... Don't bother with anything higher than a 3070 as you will likely bottleneck even your 9700K at 1080p and you won't see any additional FPS outside of Ray Tracing if you did go faster. "IF" you plan on upgrading your monitor to a 1440p@144Hz monitor in the near future, then you could consider something faster. That type of response was pleasant, factual, non-augmentative and is the type of response I would expect from a forum like this. How many of the actual replies took this approach instead of sounding condescending or argumentative?

I bounce between ultra and high detail settings pending on graphical & FPS differences. I often use Hardware Unboxed settings guides, so I am not hard locked into ultra. Can you link any benchmarks to back these claims? I am not saying you are wrong, but would help narrow my focus if that is indeed true. I had to be a bit aggressive as when I have asked questions like this before, 90% of the replies are tangents likes yours and don't address my original question. Those threads end up turning into an argument and often I never get my original question answered. It seems people on this forum prefer to find faults in someone's request instead of helping them with recommendations.

I have a 9700K CPU OC'ed to an 5Ghz(all-core) and an Asus 27" 1080p 144Hz monitor. I like to play the newest AAA games with the details cranked. Even my current 1080 Ti can't hit 144 FPS in new titles. I would also like to enable Ray Tracing when possible and would like to stay north of 60 FPS if possible, 90+ preferred. Which of the recently released GPU's would be best for this? Do I need a 3080 or 6800XT or can one of the slower cards (3070, 6800) work? And to avoid off topic arguments/suggestions: Even a 3090 and 6900XT can't hit 144 FPS in every AAA title at 1080p, so DON"T say they are overkill! Don't ask me why, but my eyes CAN'T tell the difference between 1080p and 1440p on a 27" monitor, but CAN tell the difference between 60 vs 144 FPS as well as medium vs ultra detail, so NOT going to upgrade my monitor! Even with a higher end GPU, it's unlikely my OC'ed 9700K will be the bottleneck. Any insight/suggestions will be helpful, but please keep to my original topic. Thank you.

This Black Friday or Xmas season, I plan on upgrading my gaming system, but torn as to which upgrade path to choose. Current system: i7-9700KF @ 5.0Ghz CPU EVGA 280mm AIO EVGA Z370 mATX mobo 16GB(2x8) 3200 CL14 DDR4 512GB NVMe SSD MSI 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio Seasonic G12 750W Gold PSU (about 4 years old) 27" ASUS 1080p 144Hz IPS monitor Upgrade option #1 = new GPU. While my 1080 Ti is very good for 1080p gaming, I would like to upgrade to a better GPU so I can turn on ray tracing and still get good frame rates. And anyone who say a 1080 Ti is overkill for 1080p gaming, that's only true for 60Hz monitors while my monitor is 144Hz. Even a 3080 can't hit 144FPS on most AAA games! Maybe within a year or two I'll get a 1440p@144Hz monitor, just not now. This upgrade will mainly help me max out my FPS on AAA games but will also allow me to turn on ray tracing on those games that support it for better visuals. Just worried that a big GPU upgrade might run in a CPU bottleneck. Upgrade option #2 = new Ryzen 5000 CPU & mobo. Since I am playing at 1080p, that resolution is much more CPU bound than higher resolutions, so getting a faster CPU like a 5900X & B550 mobo might help as much or more than a new GPU. I know I need to wait for Zen 3 benchmarks, but if they show a decent uplift vs my 9700KF even at 5.0Ghz, it's something to consider. This upgrade would help me increase the FPS on all games that don't already hit my 144 FPS cap, but it doesn't allow for Ray Tracing. It would also allow me to upgrade to 32GB RAM without having to swap the RAM as my current mobo only has 2 RAM slots. Lastly is that I do a lot of H265 encoding of movies for my Plex server, so hoping this would speed that up as well. I know it's too early to make this decision as I need to see the Zen 3 benchmarks as well as see what AMD brings to the table GPU wise, but just wondering what people's initial thoughts are. And any spare parts left over will trickle down to my daughter's PC, so not going to sell it for more upgrades. Thanks!

Basically, my question comes down to...what likely FPS differences at high frame rates will I see between the 3 sets of memory I have listed in my original post.

Exactly, I don't need that much more regular performance than I have now, it's the RT performance that I am looking for, so whichever card can hit 144 FPS at 1080p or get close with RT turned on will be the one I will likely get.